Interaction Studies

Volume 11, Issue 2 (2010)

2010.  iv, 188 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Target article
The crying shame of robot nannies: An ethical appraisal
Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey
161–190
Commentaries
Time will tell – why it is too early to worry
Tony Belpaeme and Anthony F. Morse
191–195
Why robot nannies probably won’t do much psychological damage
Joanna J. Bryson
196–200
Socially perceptive robots: Challenges and concerns
Ginevra Castellano and Christopher Peters
201–207
Dry your eyes: Examining the roles of robots for childcare applications
David Feil-Seifer and Maja J. Matarić
208–213
Can you kill a robot nanny? Ethological approach to the effect of robot caregivers on child development and human evolution
Enikő Kubinyi, Péter Pongrácz and Ádám Miklósi
214–219
Robot companions: Towards a new concept of friendship?
Patrizia Marti
220–226
Child development robots: Social forces, children’s perspectives
Gail F. Melson
227–232
Themes and variations in development: Can nanny-bots act like human caregivers?
Jean Mercer
233–237
Warning: The author of this document may have no mental states. Read at your own risk
Javier R. Movellan
238–245
Strange carers: Robots as attachment figures and aids to parenting
Dean Petters, Everett Waters and Felix Schönbrodt
246–252
Additional elements on the use of robots for childcare
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar
253–256
It takes a village to construct a robot: A socially situated perspective on the ethics of robot design
Selma Šabanović
257–262
Care-receiving robot as a tool of teachers in child education
Fumihide Tanaka and Takeshi Kimura
263–268
Robbie, the pioneer robot nanny: Science fiction helps develop ethical social opinion
Carme Torras
269–273
Robot nannies: Future or fiction?
Egon L. van den Broek
274–282
Applied ethicists: Naysayers or problem solvers?
Wendell Wallach
283–289
Oversold, unregulated, and unethical: Why we need to respond to robot nannies
Blay Whitby
290–294
Changing perspective: From avoiding harm to child’s best interests
Carsten Zoll and Caroline Spielhagen
295–301
Authors’ response to commentaries
Robot nannies get a wheel in the door: A response to the commentaries
Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey
302–313
Regular articles
Towards a conceptual and methodological framework for determining robot believability
Robert Rose, Matthias Scheutz and Paul Schermerhorn
314–335
The face-to-face light detection paradigm: A new methodology for investigating visuospatial attention across different face regions in live face-to-face communication settings
Laura A. Thompson, Daniel M. Malloy, John M. Cone and David L. Hendrickson
336–348
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